The Religion of Peace

"The Jews are the heirs of Hell...They will spare no pains to corrupt you. They desire nothing but your ruin. Their hatred is clear from what they say...when evil befalls you they rejoice." (Surah IV, v. 46)


Shortly before he went to the cross to die for the sins of mankind, Jesus Christ revealed this prophecy to his disciples concerning the future: "In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God. They will do such things because they have not known the (Heavenly) Father or me. I have told you this, so that when the time comes you will remember that I warned you." (John 16:2-4)


Certainly, countless people have been murdered in the name of religion throughout history. The Roman Catholic Church murdered  hundreds of thousands of people during the Crusades and the Inquisitions. Who was targeted by the Catholic Church? Both Jews and non-Catholic Christians who refused to convert to Catholicism and swear allegiance to the Roman Pontiff. In fact, from its inception in the Fourth Century A.D., the Roman Catholic Church became the leading purveyor of global anti-Semitism by issuing numerous papal decrees and canon laws throughout the centuries that denounced the Jews as the enemies of God and murderers of Christ. Adolf Hitler himself attributed much of his hatred of the Jews to what he learned in the Catholic Church during his childhood.


But in our modern world, Islam has become the most intolerant, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian religion on earth. It is a religion that allows no other religion, political system or worldview alongside it. Unlike true biblical Christianity which is promoted by peace, Islam must maintain itself and be promoted by violence. Though Islam's apologists frequently claim that Islam is a religion that promotes peace and decries violence, nothing could be further from the truth. Islam's founding prophet Muhammad himself was a violent man who advocated jihad as the integral means to spread his new religion across the world. 


Just why did Muhammad revile the Jews and call for their destruction? Because the Jews considered Islam's founding prophet to be a fraud who took al-ilah, a moon god who was one of 300 pagan deities worshiped by the ancient Arabs and reinvented him as Allah, the alleged God of the Universe. After the Jews rejected him, Muhammad recorded several curses against the Jews that later became codified into the Qu'ran. Curses such as this one: "Allah hath cursed the Jews for their disbelief." (Surah IV, v. 46) 


And the Hadith (Sayings of Muhammad) contains the ultimate call for Muslims to destroy the Jews: "The last hour will not come until the Muslims fight against the Jews and the Muslims will kill them until the Jews hide themselves behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say Muslim; the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him." (Sahih Muslim, 5203) It is this recording in the Hadith that Islamic nations such as Iran use to justify their crusade to destroy Israel and exterminate all Jewish life from the earth. In fact, the Iranian Mullahs claim that Islam's messiah, the Imam Mahdi, cannot appear on earth and establish his global caliphate until Israel is destroyed and all the Jews are gone.


Islam is not a religion of peace. It is not a religion that has been hijacked by a few radicals and extremists who have tarnished its sterling reputation. It is a religion that glorifies violence and death, and honors those as martyrs who murder infidels (Jews, Christians, apostates etc.) in the name of Allah. The recent terrorist attack on a busload of young Israelis in Bulgaria (7/18/2012) that killed at least six, again underscores how desperately wicked and malignantly violent Islam is. If the western world wants to survive, then it will either have to confront this nemesis and defeat it or be conquered by it and lose its freedom forever.